TIM RILEY

Vice President Tim Riley has devoted many volunteer hours organizing and assisting on airstrip improvements in Idaho and Montana. He has also worked closely with the US Forest Service to foster cooperation and support RAF goals on public lands across the country.Riley is a native of upstate New York. His introduction to aviation was as a…

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STEVE TAYLOR

Director Steve Taylor grew up in and around airplanes. He soloed a Super Cub on this 16th birthday and got his pilot’s license on his 17th. His career at Boeing included assignments as the President of Boeing Business Jets, and Chief Pilot for Commercial Airplanes, giving him the distinction of having flown on all seven…

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TODD SIMMONS

Director Aviation is in Todd’s DNA. His father was a U.S. Army flight surgeon; one grandfather a B-26 pilot during WWII, the other a crop duster. An uncle flew A-4’s in Vietnam; another uncle hunted enemy submarines in a Sea King for the Navy; yet another served as Beechcraft’s chief structures engineer for the Starship, the…

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PETER BUNCE

Director In April 2005, Peter (Pete) Bunce became President and CEO of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. with additional offices in Brussels, Belgium. He and the GAMA staff travel worldwide engaging regulators, policy makers and elected officials to promote general aviation and advance the interests of GAMA’s international…

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MIKE PERKINS

Treasurer and Secretary Mike was born and raised in New Hampshire (hometown is North Conway), where his interest in aviation began early. His grandfather (Transport Pilot’s License #3926) started flying in 1913 after building his first airplane. Later he became a barnstormer where he met Mike’s grandmother Freda. Deciding it was time to settle down,…

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JACK TYLER

Former Director Jack was introduced to flying in 1989 by son Devin, who began washing planes for flight time at age 13. Before long, Jack, his wife Patricia, and Devin were all licensed and flying as one another’s co-pilots on weekends, vacations and then college shopping. When Devin began flying for the Navy, Jack and…

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BILL MCGLYNN

President Bill McGlynn has been a part of the RAF since 2010 and President since 2018. He retired from a career in the computer industry in 2013, where he worked for Hewlett-Packard for 24 years. He became a pilot in 1995 and currently flies a backcountry 182. He and his wife Julie live in Leavenworth,…

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JOHN J. MCKENNA, JR.

Chairman Aloft above the Mining City of Butte, a kid seeing the grandeur of Montana’s Rockies for the first time is destined to become passionate about aviation. Those early flights in a neighbor’s Bonanza motivated young John McKenna to obtain his private pilot license at the age of 16. For forty years, he’s rarely traveled…

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BILL BRINE

Director From a young age, a Cessna was a regular part of Bill’s life, his dad’s way to get from A to B. The family plane was a tool to support the family businesses. Bill was encouraged to learn to fly for practical purposes – not as a hobby or passion. A glider ride 30…

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JOHNSON MOVES ON AFTER 5 YEARS AS RAF DIRECTOR

Many know Steve Johnson as founder of SuperCub.org, and publisher of the stunning SuperCub.org photo calendar. He and his wife Laura live in a suburb of Kansas City, MO. Steve attended the RAF’s Glacier Summit in 2012 in Kalispell, MT and he joined the board after that. Having served for five years helping direct RAF priorities and action, Steve wishes…

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